Iran’s former leader was ‘force for evil,’ Defence Minister says, as he defends Ottawa’s backing of air strikes

The Globe and Mail: He said Canada is well aware of Tehran’s support for terror groups. “We know where funding and financing has been coming from. We know the extent of the involvement of the Iranian regime in, for example, organized criminal syndicates.”

At the same time Mr. McGuinty was careful to distance Canada from the military operations in the Middle East, saying Canada’s armed forces “were not involved in the preparation, nor the execution of that particular decision by the Israelis and the Americans to attack.”…